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GAVIN NEWSOM IS TOO SMARMY TO EVER BECOME PRESIDENT.

Governor Newsom: Not Naïve About Trump's 2nd Term

Governor Newsom talks about California's past experience countering unconstitutional efforts during President-elect Trump's first term.

From Governor Newsom

8:09 AM · Jan 5, 2025

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https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1875892496859119940

no one is naive that Newsom and the Democrats have stollen elections for 30+ years, which is unconstitutional

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>>22296116 These Were The Most Viewed Wikipedia Pages In 2024 teaser image ie what the CIA wanted you to see the mostPN

Apparently Deaths were mostly viewed

Might have been helpful to post the pic

Trump's Plan To End Currency War 3.0 Jan. 5, 2025. 1/2

Authored by James Rickards

There has been a lot reported in recent days about the return of currency wars. With Trump 2.0 about to begin, let’s review his last term and what to expect in the second.

Trump badly bungled his transition after first being elected president in 2016. He was not ready with a long list of loyal appointees… They thwarted his agenda. That backstabbing came on top of the large number of Obama holdovers in the Deep State who saw themselves as a “resistance” movement.

Trump is doing a better job of preparing for a second term as president, but the resistance is not sitting still either. As reported in The Washington Post, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance and other outlets, Trump is working on a secret plan to devalue the U.S. dollar. The goal would be to cheapen U.S. exports and thereby help the U.S. balance of trade and create exported-related jobs.

But critics say that this will only increase U.S. inflation as Americans have to pay more for their imported goods using cheaper dollars. The critics also say that other countries will retaliate against the U.S. by cheapening their own currencies (that’s the essence of a currency war) and no country will be any further ahead. In fact, the entire world will be worse off.

Rules of (Currency) War

Before looking more closely at what’s actually going on, some basics about a currency war should be explained.

The first rule is that the world is not always in a currency war.The periods from 1944 to 1971 (the original Bretton Woods era) and from 1987 to 2010 (the period of the Washington Consensus) were times of currency peace. This contrasts with 1921-1936 (Currency War I), 1967-1987 (Currency War II), and the current period since 2010 (Currency War III).

The second rule is that when we are in a currency war, they can last for fifteen years or longer.It comes as no surprise that the currency war that commenced in 2010 is still going strong 14 years later in 2024. And that points to another key aspect of this debate.

The currency war being written about today by the media is not a new currency war. It’s the same one that has been going on since 2010. We’re simply in a new phase or a new battle.

It is true that cheapening your currency can import inflation. Sometimes that’s a legitimate policy goal if your country has been suffering from deflation. That’s obviously not the case in the U.S. today.

It’s also true that cheapening your currency can export deflation as trading partners pay less for your goods. That’s what China was doing to the entire world from 1994 to 2010 and that’s why the U.S. launched a currency war in 2010 – to fight back against disinflation and borderline deflation caused by cheap Chinese goods.

Currency wars can also shift jobs overseas and destroy domestic manufacturing as the terms of trade shift based on changing currency values. Retaliation is always waiting right around the corner in any currency war. The U.S. dollar hit an all-time low in August 2011, which was consistent with the U.S. goal of trying to import inflation.

But Europe struck back, and the EUR/USD cross-rate crashed from $1.60 to $1.04 as a result. So, it is correct that no one wins a currency war, and everyone is damaged in the process due to volatility, uncertainty, and the costs of conducting the war.

Trump’s Plan: Currency Peace

So, are the critics right that Trump has a secret plan to devalue the dollar? And are they right that this new stage in the currency war will bring inflation and hurt the U.S. economy?

The critics are wrong and don’t understand what Trump is actually trying to do. Trump is not trying to start a currency war; he’s trying to end it once and for all.==…

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trumps-plan-end-currency-war-30

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In the first place, no president has the power to unilaterally devalue the dollar. That might have been possible under the gold standard or some standard of fixed exchange rates, but that has not been the state of the world since 1973.

Exchange rates fluctuate based on a number of factors including interest rates, industrial growth, exchange controls, central bank interventions, capital flows, tax rates and many other macroeconomic variables. But the idea that the president can just wave his hand and devalue the dollar is false.

Far from the reckless, inflationary process the media claim, Trump’s actual plan is based on the highly successful modeldeveloped by James Baker for Ronald Reagan and implemented in the Plaza Accord of 1985 and the Louvre Accord of 1987.

After the severe economic recession of 1982 and Paul Volcker’s policy of moving interest rates to 20%, inflation in the U.S. was finally reigned in. Inflation dropped from 13.5% in 1980, to 6.1% in 1982, and then 3.2% in 1983. Investment in the U.S. went on a tear. U.S. real growth was 16% from 1983 to 1986. Everyone wanted dollars to invest in the U.S. and the dollar boomed reaching an all-time high in 1985.

Finally, the Reagan administration decided the U.S. dollar was too strong and was hurting U.S. exports and jobs. Treasury Secretary James Baker convened a meeting of the finance ministers of France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the U.S. at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The purpose was not to fight a currency war. The purpose was to create order in currency markets out of the chaos that had prevailed since 1973.

The parties reached a joint agreement that would devalue the U.S. dollar in an orderly fashion versus the French Franc, Japanese Yen, UK pounds sterling, and the German Deutschemark. Once the targeted level for the dollar was achieved, the parties would use their best efforts, including market intervention as needed to maintain those levels within narrow bands.

A separate meeting in Paris at the Louvre in 1987 agreed that the devaluation phase was over, and the dollar would be maintained at the new parities. This was not currency war; it was currency peace achieved by agreement and implemented in a cooperative fashion. The Louvre Accord (this time including the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Japan and Canada) ushered in a period of global prosperity that lasted twenty years until the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.

Trump’s goal is to repeat the success of the Plaza and Louvre Accords. Trump’s advisor on this is Robert Lighthizer, who is one of the most brilliant financial minds around and was Trump’s U.S. Trade Representative (2017-2021).

Lighthizer was also USTR for Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985 so he’s a veteran of prior currency wars and was in the administration around the time the Plaza Accord was being developed. Lighthizer is the perfect individual to help Trump achieve the kind of success that Reagan and Baker had in the 1980s.

The media are trying to portray Trump as reckless when in fact he’s proposing something highly beneficial for U.S. jobs and U.S. industry. Don’t be fooled by false claims of new currency wars.

Trump is trying to achieve a new era of currency stability and lasting prosperity.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trumps-plan-end-currency-war-30

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Lighthizer is truly brilliant, so is Bessent even though anons believe he is part of NWO, which has not been proven. FYI many brilliant economists worked for Soros in the beginning. He is the only Historical Economist that uses 1,000s of years of history to understand the current economy and how to correct it

44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe 1/2

JAN 05, 2025 - MICHAEL SNYDER

2024 was definitely one of the wildest years that any of us have ever experienced.During the past 12 months, Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury, he was almost assassinated, he won the presidential election, and he was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Nobody has ever had a year quite like that.

Of course 2024 was also a year of war. Israel battled Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the government of Syria was overthrown by radical Islamists, long-range missiles provided by NATO started raining down on targets deep inside Russia, and Russian forces stormed even deeper into eastern Ukraine. 2024 also brought us Hurricane Helene, a “Great American eclipse”, and “the comet of the century”.

Now here we are at the end of the year, and we are being told to brace ourselves for a bird flu pandemic.

I have a feeling that the year ahead is going to be absolutely nuts,but for a moment I wanted to look back at the crazy year that we just went through.

The following are 44 statistics from 2024 that are almost too crazy to believe…

#1Over 155 million votes were cast in the 2024presidential election. Donald Trump’s win in that election capped what many consider to bethe greatest political comeback in U.S. history.

#2Nearly 11 billion dollarswas spent during the2024 election cycle. That is the most money ever spent on an election by a very wide margin.

#3 1.2 billion dollars was spent on political ads in the state of Pennsylvania alone.

#4 Prior to the election, one survey found that 79 percent of Americans believed that the nation was on the wrong track.

#5 The U.S. government is currently $36,144,183,375,647.43 in debt.

#6 If our politicians keep spending money at the current rate, the U.S. governmentwill be 51 trillion dollars in debt four years from now.

#7 Total U.S. householddebt is nearing 18 trillion dollars.

#8 The number ofshoplifting incidentsper year in the United Statesis up 93 percentcompared to pre-pandemic levels.

#9On a single dayin December, Joe Biden announced that he wascommuting the prison sentencesof nearly 1,500 criminals and he issued full pardons to 39 others.

#10 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 37 percent of Americans are having trouble even paying their most basic bills.

#11 According to Bank of America, almost a third of all households “spend more than 95% of their disposable incomeon necessities such as housing costs, groceries and utility bills”.

#12 Theprice of orange juice is up 327 percentover the last 3 years.

#13 The average household in Miami spends 327 dollars during a single trip to the grocery store.

#14 It now takes more than $100,000 a year for a typical U.S. householdto live “the American Dream” in all 50 states, and in 29 U.S. states it takes more than $150,000 a year.

#15 For the average person, it now costs 4.4 million dollars to live “the American Dream” over the course of a lifetime.

#16 Thanks to rampant inflation, the average American now believes that it takes an income of $270,000 a year in order to be “financially successful”.

#17 Overall, U.S.home prices are up more than 1,000 percent since 1974.

#18 Only 10 percent of Americans believe that becoming a homeowner is “easy or somewhat easy”.

#1937 percentof U.S. cardholders have alreadymaxed out at least one credit card.

#20 The amount of money that Americans owe on their credit cards is twice as large as the GDP of the 100 poorest nations on the entire planet combined.

#21 30 percent of all student loan borrowers have “gone without food or medicine due to their monthly bills”.(once again proving College is a scam)

#22 At onefood bankin New Jersey, demand has actuallyquadrupledsince the peak of the pandemic.

#23 An all-time record high770,000 people are homeless in the United States, and that number grew by 18 percent in just one year which is also an all-time record high.

#24 We are being told thatmore than 3 million Americansare nowliving in their vehicles.

#25 The number ofjob openingsin the United States hasfallen by about 4 million since 2021.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/44-statistics-2024-are-almost-too-crazy-believe

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#26 U.S. retailers have announced 7,100 store closures in 2024.

#27 For the 12 months ending June 30th, the number ofbusiness bankruptcyfilings wasup more than 40 percentcompared to the previous 12 months.

#28 Anoffice building in Manhattan that sold for 332 million dollars in 2006 sold for just 8.5 million dollars in 2024.

#29 Half of all workers in the U.S.make less than $43,222.81 a year.

#30 According to Bank of America, from 2019 to 2024 there was a 10 percent jump in those that are living paycheck to paycheck.

#31 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 29 percent of all U.S. households were one person households in 2024.

#32 40 percent of Americans report feeling lonely at least some of the time.

#33 30 percent of Americans have been clinically diagnosed with depression at some point in their lives.

#34 Themarket capitalization of Fartcoin is currently 973 million dollars. Meanwhile, the marketcapitalization of Office Depot is just 680 million dollars.

#35 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.2 million people that were not born in the United States are now living here.

#36 The federal government has admitted that there are approximately“425,000 convicted criminals living in the U.S. illegally”.

#37 According to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, the total damage caused by Hurricane Helene in his state exceeds 50 billion dollars.

#38 According to the official website of the GAO,Congress had appropriated a total of 174 billion dollars for the war in Ukraine as of April.(so now it's probably over $200 billion or more)

#39 According to the Institute for Economics & Peace,there are 56 active military conflicts raging around the world right now. That is the highest number that we have seen since World War II.

#40 According to the United Nations, there areover 2 billion people that eat insectsas part of their normal diets right now.

#41 It is being projected that the market for insect protein in the United States will be valued at 274 billion dollars in 2031.

#42Sperm counts have fallen by more than 50 percent since 1973. If this trend continues, soon we will not be able to produce enough viable offspring and the human population of this planet will plummet dramatically.

#43 Ourbrains are slowly but surely filling up with plastic. One team of scientists discovered that human brain samples from 2024 had concentrations ofmicroplastics that were 50 percent higherthan human brain samples from 2016

#44 If the amount of plastic in our brains continues to rise at a rate of 50 percent every 8 years,28 percent of our brains will be plastic 80 years from now and everyone will be dead.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/44-statistics-2024-are-almost-too-crazy-believe

He forgot one,Research Anons in 2024 increased the understanding, support and success of 45/PDJT; while hammering the losers, Joe and Kamala, by just spreading the truth here,while lurkers leaked it out to the world. NCSWICN

Kek, this could be better, any ideas?

VDH: Germany's New Morgenthau Plan Victor Davis Hanson 1/2

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then-U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany.==

After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II — along with the failed Versailles peace treaty of 1919 — the Allies in World War II wanted to ensure there wouldnever again be an aggressive Germany powerful enough to invade its neighbors.

When the so-called Morgenthau Plan was leaked to the press in September 1944, at first it was widely praised.

After all, it would supposedly render Germany incapable of ever starting another world war in Europe.

Morgenthau certainlyenvisioned a Carthaginian peace, designed to ensure a permanently deindustrialized, unarmed, and pastoral Germany.

Postwar Germany would have resembled something akin to the ancient, pre-civilized frontier that the first-century AD historian Tacitus wrote about in his Germania.

The plan would have ensured thatwithin six months of Germany’s surrender, all of its industrial plants and equipment were to be dismantled.

The Ruhr, the renowned center of European industrial strength, was to be permanently neutered=, starved of its energy, raw materials, and infrastructure.

After the war, the plan demanded virtual complete disarmament of Germany. Its once-feared armed forces were to be rendered nonexistent.

There were also promisedmassive reductions in Germany’s borders. Various countries, such as the Soviet Union, Poland, and France, were to be given large slices of the old Third Reich.

FutureGerman securitywould hinge only on the power and goodwill of the victorious United States and its allies.

When the dying Nazi Party got wind of the plan, Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, had a field day. He screamed to Germans that they were all doomed to oblivion if they lost the war, even growing opponents of the Nazi Party.

Even many Americans were aghast at the plan.

Gen. George Marshall, the Army chief of staff, warned that its mere mention had galvanized German troops to fight to the end, increasing American casualties as they closed in on the German homeland.

Ex-President HerbertHoover blasted the plan as inhumane. He feared mass starvation of the German people if they were reduced to a premodern, rural peasantry.

But once the victorious allies occupied a devastated Germany, witnessed its moonscape ruined by massive bombing and house-to-house fighting, and discovered that their “ally,” Russia’s Joseph Stalin, was ruthlessand hellbent on turning all of Europe communist, the Truman administration backed off the plan.

There is atragic footnoteto the aborted horrors of the Morgenthau Plan.Currently, Germany is doing to itself almost everything Morgenthau once dreamed of.

Its green delusions have shut down far too many of its nuclear, coal, and gas electrical generation plants.

Erratic solar and wind “sustainable energy” means thatpower costs are four times higherthan on average in the United States.

Once-dominant European giants Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes are now bleeding customers and profits. Their own government’s green and electric vehicle mandates ensure they will become globally uncompetitive.

The German economy actually shrank in 2023. And the diminished Ruhr can no longer save the German economy from its own utopian politicians….

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/vdh-germanys-new-morgenthau-plan

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The German military is all but disarmed and short thousands of recruits.

German industries do not produce enough ammunition, tanks, ships, and aircraft to equip even its diminished army, navy, and air force.

Just a few hundred miles from Germany in Ukraine, more than a million Ukrainians and Russians are dead, wounded, or missing — in the costliest European battle since the horrors of Stalingrad.

Yet the once postwar German dynamo nation now lacks the manpower, munitions, and money to aid Ukraine in any meaningful way against an ascendant Russian invader.

More than 1 million immigrants have entered the country illegally, the vast majority of them from the Middle East. Many of them are hostile to European values and culture, as recent terrorist killings have shown. One-fifth of the population was not born in Germany.

The shrinking German people are growing angry, divided, and depressed.Their 1.4 percent fertility rate is one of the lowest in the Western world.

A tragic irony now abounds.

After World War II, the Truman administration rejected the notion of a pastoral, deindustrialized, and insecure Germany as a cruel prescription for poverty, hunger, and depopulation.

But now the German people themselves voted for their own updated version of Morgenthau’s plan — as they willingly reduced factory hours, curtailed power and fuel supplies, and struggled with millions of illegal aliens and porous borders.

Germans accept that they have no military to speak of that could protect their insecure borders — without a United States-led NATO.

Eighty years ago, Germany’s former conquerors rejected wrecking the defeated nation as too harsh.But now Germany is willfully pastoralizing, disarming, deindustrializing — and destroying — itself.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/vdh-germanys-new-morgenthau-plan

Victor is so right. It seems Germany is so afraid of harming illegals so there is a massive number of them 4 million last I read, even the immigrants the majority of them don't obey the laws. White Germans are punished more than illegals Merkel completely destroyed Germany her open borders plan to control the EU. Even capable leaders and parties can't get elected because the left seems to love failure.

Virgin Islands Delegate's Mic Cut Amid Whining Over Non-Voting Rule

Luis Cornelio via Headline USA,

U.S. Virgin IslandsDelegate Stacey Plaskett threw a dramatic tantrum on Friday on the House floor while protesting her and other U.S. territories’ non-voting status while selectingthe 119th Congress’s speaker of the House.

Plaskett’s attempt to make apolitical and performative point quickly fell flat as her microphonewas cut off for failing to follow House rules.

After the first speaker roll call,Plaskett demanded to know why non-voting delegates like herself were not called to vote.

The move appeared to be part of aplan to gain viral attention.

“Northern Mariana, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia were not called, representing collectively 4 million Americans … collectively the largest per capita of veterans in this country,” Plaskett began.

“I ask why they were not called from the parliamentarian, please,” she added.

The House clerk provided a straightforward response, swiftly shutting down Plaskett’s lecture.

“Delegates-elect and the resident commissioner-elect are not qualified to vote. Representatives-elect are the only individuals qualified to vote in the election of a speaker,” the House clerk answered.

“As provided in Section 36 of the House Rules and Manual, thespeaker is elected by a majority of the members-elect voting by surname,” he added.

In response, Plaskett launched into what appeared to be a memorized rant.

“This body and this nation has a territories’ and a colony’s problem,” she added.

“What was supposed to be temporary has now effectively become permanent. We must do something about this problem…”

Plaskett’s tirade was abruptly cut short when the clerk proceeded to mute her microphone: “House will be in order.”

The U.S. Virgin Islands is one of the six U.S. territories that are partially represented by delegates instead of lawmakers.They can introduce legislation and be part of committees but lack authority to vote on the House floor.

American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico are the other territories. They are respectively represented by Aumua Amata Radewagen, Eleanor Holmes Norton, James Moylan, Kimberlyn King-Hinds and Pablo Jose Hernandez Rivera.

(https://headlineusa.com/virgin-islands-delegates-mic-cut-amid-whining-over-non-voting-rule/

(It's surprising to me is she had not been investigated about her good frienship of Epstein and the Island there.)

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1875257338313228794

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>>22297546

Democrat Congresswoman Sued for Aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s Pedophile Ring

'Plaskett also visited Epstein at his New York mansion to request a $30,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee…'

Ken Silva December 11, 2023

Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking network have sued multiple U.S. Virgin Islands officials for aiding and abetting Epstein’s criminal enterprise.

Among those officials being sued is the territory’sdelegate to Congress, Stacey Plaskett, who is also the ranking Democrat on the House Weaponization Subcommittee.

According to thelawsuit, Plaskett and the other officials “knowingly aided and abetted, facilitated, and directly participated in Epstein’s illegal venture through financial and non-financial transactions.” Epstein’s network was based in Manhattan but frequently trafficked girls to his private island in the USVI.

Plaskett, for her part, visited Epstein at his New Yorkmansion to request that he contribute to her political campaigns, and Epstein and his colleagues paid her campaigns $30,000, the lawsuit said.

“Plaskett also visited Epstein at his New York mansion to request a $30,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee, which was ultimately declined because,Plaskett knew, Epstein failed their vetting,” the lawsuit added.

The lawsuit further cited Plaskett’s past as an attorney with Epstein’s longtime law firm, Kellerhals Ferguson Kroblin PLLC, as well as her stint asattorney for the USVI’s Economic Development Corporation when it approved over $300 million in tax breaks for Epstein’s companies.

“Plaskett was the attorney on the EDC responsible for, upon information and belief, recommending that the EDC provides these benefits to Epstein and his companies and enterprise,” the lawsuit said.

“These tax breaks amounted to $300 million in direct benefits to Epstein and his companies and enterprise.”

Headline USA reported many of the abovementioned allegations in March, when Plaskett was receiving attention for her antics on the Weaponization Subcommittee.

In response, her office distanced herself from Epstein, noting that she wasn’t working for the EDC when Epstein received the $300 million tax break, nor was she working for Epstein’s preferred law firm when he bought his private island, Little St. James.

“Rep. Plaskett was not with the [EDC] at the time that Jeffrey Epstein was granted his [EDC] benefits. In 2016, Rep. Plaskett was not with [Kellerhals Ferguson Kroblin PLLC]. She was already a Member of Congress and did not engage in outside employment,” her office said.

Plaskett and the other defendants have yet to respond to the recent lawsuit.The case number is 1:23-cv-10301.

(https://headlineusa.com/democrat-congresswoman-sued-for-aiding-jeffrey-epsteins-pedophile-ring/

Can an anon find out where this lawsuit is now?

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notable

>>22297643

Thx anon

>>22297638

Musk is getting too uppity and harming MAGA related politicians in foreign countries. Trump is not going to like he's fucking with Farage. X is a major platform for getting support and attention for more voters.

WTH is Musk pointing his thumb on the scale of elections anywhere

>>22297611

Everything Shawn and Sam said were hypothetical, they made that clear. So Sam having his own opinion and letting people know, how is suspect? it was just an opinion.I don't know why this guy is saying Catfish.

They both received communications from Livelsberg And they were just discussing their experience to try to understand the situation.

Bernard Hudson: New Orleans Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, CIA Corruption, & Tulsi Gabbard

Permanent Washington is trying to prevent Tulsi Gabbard from becoming Director of National Intelligence. Bernard Hudson ran counterterrorism at CIA, and says the country needs her.

2 days ago

2:07:58

https://youtu.be/61rCf7INomY